Reginald Blanton's last words

Yes I do. I know ya'lls pain, believe me I shed plenty of tears behind Carlos. Carlos was my friend. I didn't murder him. This what is happening right now is an injustice. This doesn't solve anything. This will not bring back Carlos. Ya'll fought real hard here to prove my innocence. This is only the beginning. I love each and everyone dearly. Dre My queen. I love you. Yaws, Junie I love yall. Stay strong, continue to fight. They are fixing to pump my veins with a lethal drug the American Veterinary Association won't even allow to be used on dogs. I say I am worse off than a dog. They want to kill me for this; I am not the man that did this. Fight on. I will see ya'll again. That's all I can say

Façade Revealed

NOTHING has changed—

I can still hear

Soulful groans, mothers’ cries,

As their children, ripped away from them,

Are taken for a “lil ride.”

Lynchings continue…

Disguised and revolutionized under a guise

Of justice, but look into Their eyes

And you’ll see

Smiling faces saying “Burn ‘em alive!”

Only now

And “burning” is suffocation,

And the “cross” is made of steel;

Horizontally laid, surrounded by glass

So They can congregate, and still watch

A color’d be killed.

It’s a drawn out process—

Approximately 6 years is what it takes;

For this type of death comes extremely slowly.

They drain the taxpayers dry,

While they say the appeal process is owed to me.

They have to make it look good!

They don’t want society to start having thoughts

That They’re snatching Us off the streets,

Doing to Us what was done to the Arawaks.

So what do we have?

Millions of dollars

Being drained from You for political gain.

Your money that’s supposed to be used for our appeals

Is being rechanelled to the State Treasury’s veins.*

Let’s go back a lil ways

To the time of “old” slavery.

Any enslaved person that resisted

Was made an example

To their families and all other potential resistors

When dismembered, with their body parts trampled.

The shock value of such a scene was profound—

Instant subjugation by the mere sight.

And they’re still being barbaric to subjugate a class

By this revolutionized dismembering of lives.

Comparing the past to the present—

Death Row inmates’ families

Are afflicted by the same psychological warfare.

And by it, these families are thrown

Into a state of bewilderment;

An oppressive tool to suppress the fight they have left.

So, the fight is taken out of the families,

While their children are taken for the slaughter,

And used for the accumulation of money.

While the government pockets those tax-payed dollars.

As our society’s morale evolved,

So did the system’s, superficially

So that Their means of profit won’t be taken away.

They’ve sugar- coated what’s ordinarily repulsive.

Executions and Lynchings, it’s all the same.

By Reginald “Omari Huduma” Blanton innocent executed by the state of Texas

We are a group of prisoners that seek to unite the death row community to bring about change for everyone caged here on Texas Death Row. Due to the ever worsening deplorable environment of Texas Death Row we have no choice but to push forward and initiate change in the conditions.

Through DRIVE we have organized a group of passionate prisoner activists who have put aside all minor barriers of ethnicity, creed, color and beliefs, to focus on the injustices forced upon us by this system. By means of inner-resistance, organizing, outer petitions drives, protests and direct actions, we will solidify our stance and remain relentless in the fight against oppression!

Until Humanitarian conditions are implemented and Freedom and true Justice is achieved, DRIVE will continue to be an uncompromising force in the Struggle!

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